Re: Toroid stubborness and HV sickness

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Original poster: "J Dow by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jdowphotography-at-hotmail-dot-com>

{To continue with my toroid troubles, my secondary is 22.5 inches closewound
22 AWG, primary 13 turns 1/4 copper tube spaced 1/4 inch and tapped at 6.25
turns (my LC meter reads 16.6 uH.) My saltwater cap. measures .013 uf . 
Small RQ
style gap w/ muffin fan, toroid is semi-rigid ducting- 22.5", 52". My power is
a 15/60 NST.
No sparks without a tack!
When tuning using 30% power, sparks develop slowly. Also at full power w/
breakout point- they sputter and get slowly longer over time. Anybody know what
this means?
Thanks in advance,
Robert Hanford}}}
first what do mean tack? A brake out point?
I can see to things you should try.
1.	try a bigger cap. I used bottle caps for a year and found them to be 
reliable but week. I was using 9 wine bottles with my 15/30nst before I 
swiched to comershal caps.
2.	The spark gap is your problem. Make a SRSG. Or if that's too much a vac 
gap(sucher gap). End of story
Good luck
Read you later
Josh